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  One of the finest general maps of China produced during the fin de siècle period, a large format, highly detailed work produced as part of map sequence for the China Inland Mission (CIM) by the world leading firm of Edward Stanford, and the first issue to be predicated upon the revolutionary cartography of the Russian sinologist Emil Bretschneider, providing…

    8°. 8 pp., 8 pp., with black and white illustrations, original illustrated green wrappers with French and Ottoman title, staple (wrappers with light staining, foxing and old annotations, but otherwise in a good used condition).  

Hekim Ismail Pasha (also Ismail Hakkı Pasha or Hekimbaşı İsmail Efendi, 1807–1880). Istanbul: Henry Cayol 1848. 8°, [4 pp.] lithographed title and two pages in Ottoman, 16 pp. lithographed text in Bulgarian, original yellow publishers wrappers (little stained, soft folds) (#70661). A rare book on cholera by an Ottoman medical doctor Hekim Ismail Pasha, in Bulgarian language in Early Cyrillic…

  A rare work on hygiene in Istanbul, written by a French engineer to prevent cholera and similar diseases, which were then spreading across Europe. 8°: [1] title, 35 pp., original pink wrappers with printed title, cover signed by the author and dedicated to Leon Sellié (wrappers slightly age-toned and stained with tiny tears to spine).

  [Âlem-i İslâm ve İngiliz Misyoneri, İngiliz Misyoneri Nasıl Yetiştirilir? / The World of Islam and the British Missionaries. How do they train British Missionaries?]   A rare insight on the impact of the Christian missionaries on the Muslim world 8°. 112 pp., [2 pp.], interleaved black and white photographs and one map, original cover with lettering, later blue cloth…

Extremely rare – 1 of only 2 known surviving examples – an ephemeral ‘Relación’ pamphlet likely containing the earliest published firsthand account of a dramatic naval battle between Tuscan vessels commanded by the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de Leyva and a pair of Algerian-Ottoman vessels, which occurred in the Greek Aegean on July 1, 1622, upon which after ferocious combat…

  First Search: Venetians and Genoese Sailors Discover Islands. Second: Christopher Columbus's Discovery of America Also: Amerika kıt'asının hîn-i keşf ü istîlâsında zuhûra gelen vukūât-ı garîbenin târîhi. Bahs-i evvel, Venedik ve Cenevizli gemicilerinin keşf eylediği cezâyir ve sâniyen Kristof Kolomb'un Amerika'yı bulması beyânındadır This is an early, possibly first separately issued publication on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America…

  An ephemeral biography of Christopher Columbus in Ottoman language was issued in the series Büyük Adamlar Serisi (Series of Important Men) with Ottoman lettering in the last year before the Atatürk’s reformation of the script in the Republic of Turkey.   8°. 15 pp. with illustrations, illustrated cover, stapled (soft folds, minor staiing, overall in a good condition).  …

Mehmet Fetgerey Şoenu, 1890-1931. [Kafkasya ve Servet Menbaları / Caucasus and Sources of Wealth]   Istanbul: A. Garoyan Matbaası  1924.   8°, blank, 136 pp., original wrappers with lettering (uncut example, little age-toned, foxed  and stained, tiny tears and chips in margins).